Offices and functions

Co-founder of the GERMAN MUSLIM-LEAGUE e. V., Hamburg
("Deutsche Muslim-Liga e. V." Hamburg DML-HH),
for several years its President

Sheikh of the SUFI TARIQAH AS-SAFINAH ;

Until 2006 president of the CHRISTIAN-ISLAMIC SOCIETY e. V. (CIG),
Koeln for more than a decade. Since then member of the Advisory-Board
years

Founding member of the CENTRAL COUNCIL OF MUSLIMS IN GERMANY
("Zentralrat der Muslime in Deutschland" ZMD) and delegate;

DMLBonn is the Muslim Sponsoring Organisation of the
“STANDING CONFERENCE OF JEWS, CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS IN EUROPE” (JCM)): Sheikh
Bashir was team leader until 1999. Now Chadigah M. Kissel is Muslim team leader together with the
board member Karimah Stauch;

Board member or regular member in several other organizations e. g. member of WCRP/RfP
(World Conference of Religions for Peace);

in a number of German-Arab friendship organizations;

Member of the “Global Council” of the UNITED RELIGIONS INITIATIVE (URI) (i.e.
one of three elected representatives of Europe);

Member of the “European Executive Committee (EEC)” of the UNITED RELIGIONS INITIATIVE, Brussels;

Founding member and president of URI GERMANY (founded 2005);

Member of the Parliament of the World Religions, Chicago;

Honorary Fellow at the Leo-Baeck-College, London;

One of five members of the DIWAN COMMITTEE
(Committee of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany (“Zentralrat der Muslime in Deutschland”)
and the Islamic Council in Germany (“Islamrat für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland”),
who are responsible for determining the beginning and end of the month of fasting (Ramadan) in Germany);

Member of the cultural committee of the ZMD for the Islam Pavilion at the
EXPO2000 in Hannover.